Betty Boo

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By Claudia Pineiro

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Betty Boo by Claudia Pineiro is a gripping crime and thriller novel where a secluded writer is pulled back into the public eye following a high-profile murder. As she investigates the case, she navigates a web of deceit, power, and corruption, intertwining her personal battles with the unraveling mystery. With insights into the media's role in shaping public perception, the novel explores themes of identity, ambition, and the quest for truth.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate crime thrillers with a sharp dose of social commentary and dark humour. Set in Buenos Aires, it weaves a captivating story involving a murder that unveils complex relationships and societal critiques, engaging readers who relish suspense with substance.

Betty Boo

The murder is no random crime. Five members of the Argentine industrial and political elite, who all went to the same boarding-school, have died in apparently innocent circumstances. The Maravillosa murder is just the last in the series and those in power in Argentina are not about to allow all this brought to light. Too much is at stake.

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When a Buenos Aires industrialist is found dead at his home in La Maravillosa, an exclusive gated community, the novelist Nurit Iscar (nicknamed Betty Boo after Betty Boop) is contracted by a former lover, the editor of a national newspaper, to cover the story. Nurit teams up with the paper's veteran, but now demoted, crime reporter. Soon they realise that they are falling in love, which complicates matters deliciously.

The murder is no random crime. Five members of the Argentine industrial and political elite, who all went to the same boarding school, have died in apparently innocent circumstances. The Maravillosa murder is just the last in the series, and those in power in Argentina are not about to allow all this to be brought to light. Too much is at stake.

Not for nothing is Claudia Pieiro Argentina's most popular crime writer. Betty Boo is original, witty and hugely entertaining; it mixes murder with love, political power, and journalism . . . Pieiro's style—lengthy paragraphs containing a variety of thoughts, issues and dialogue with no quotation marks—is challenging at first, but is soon conquered, and is definitely worth the effort. It must have been hard to translate; Miranda France has done so excellently. - Marcel Berlins, The Times

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781908524553

Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 January 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bitter Lemon Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 364

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Claudia Pineiro Crime & Thriller Fiction General Fiction

About the Author

Author: Pineiro, after working as a professional accountant, became a journalist, playwright and television scriptwriter and in 1992 won the prestigious Pleyade journalism award. She has more recently turned to fiction; All Yours (finalist for the 2003 Planeta Prize) was her debut novel. Other titles include Elena Sabe, Un ladron entre nosotros (winner of the Norma-Fundalectura Youth Literature Prize) and Thursday Night Widows. Translator: Miranda France wrote Bad Times in Buenos Aires which in essay form won the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize in The Spectator magazine. A book by the same title was published in 1998 and met with great critical acclaim. The New York Times described it as 'a remarkable achievement' and the Sunday Times as 'an outstanding book'. She has also written the novel That Summer at Hill Farm.